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Headlamp.

Bring your sheets, lay the book on a spare chair or stool, use clothespins to keep the pages from turning in the breeze, and wear a headlamp to see it.  Just don't look anyone straight in the face or you'll blind them. 

For memorizing, I find it's easier to memorize the patterns by section.  Get the verse, the chorus, and the bridge each separately.  Nail them down.  Then when it's time to play, you only have to remember one thing, which is whether you're playing a chorus, verse, or bridge, rather than having to remember each individual chord change. 

- Zurf

Package arrived.

I'm amending my comfort zone to $299+tax.  It was very nearly NGD for me yesterday.  In my search for a campfire guitar, I came across a Takamine GS330, which is a cedar top mahogony body guitar.  I liked it.  A lot. 

- Zurf

What makes you think they aren't pretty already Roger?

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Once you realize that new country is classic rock without the flatted thirds, it's a lot easier to take.

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I'd be up for one.

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www.justinguitar.com

Go to the lessons on scales. 

Most rock solos are done on the minor pentatonic scale and most country solos are done on the major pentatonic scale.  Folk and blues kind of smash the two scales together and use what sounds good. 

- Zurf

BUMP.

Could be.  It would be a heck of a coincidence if not. 

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Thanks MKM.  I am a believer and I've studied Scripture quite a lot, both from an eschatologic perspective and also from a historic perspective.  Never really scholarly research with a university, but I tend not to read the contemporary Christian culture books (thinking instead that they are a danger to effective actions by believers) and do think it's very important for people who read the Bible to not just read the words from one translation but to read several translations, learn how the different versions were prepared, by whom, and for what purpose to ensure that the interpretation is historically accurate and based on a sound scholarly approach, and also to know a bit about the greater culture in which the events took place, who the author was thought to be, and what the author may have been trying to do (convince someone, record history, record prophecy, interpret events, give advice, etc.).  It's a difficult way to go about reading Scripture, but I think that doing anything less can lead to misinterpretation.  Sometimes the misinterpretation is purposeful.  People read into Scripture what isn't there rather than taking out from Scripture what it says.  There's no guarantee that interpretation will be accurate even doing those things I mentioned, but I think it's at least more likely to lead to a good understanding.  Mix that with respect for others and some humility and you've got a good recipe for a rich life.

A simple example.  People read the passage about it being easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.  They use this to suggest that wealth is in and of itself is an impediment to faith and salvation, despite many of the heros of the Bible being extremely wealthy people.  But that's not what the passage means at all.  The eye of the needle was a gate through the walls of Jeruselam through Jeruselam's walls through which shepherds (who were treated as disgusting but necessary) would herd their sheep if the walled city were under attack.  To enter through the eye of the needle, one had to crawl on hands and knees through the thick walls.  Because it was for flocks of sheep, it would be littered with mud, sheep urine and defecation.  Shepherds were humbled by circumstance and would not hesitate to crawl through.  Rich men wore fancy garments and rode camels.  A camel would not fit through a gate designed for sheep.  A rich man riding on the camel would not enter through the eye of the needle but the front gates.  However, a rich man who humbled himself enough to leave the wealth of his camel behind (much like abandoning your new Range Rover today) to crawl through the sheep waste, soiling his pure garments, could enter to the safety of the city as easily as the shepherd.  It is a passage that deals with humility moreso than wealth.  Without the context of what else is happening in the books, without paying attention to what the author is trying to convey, and without a cultural and historical knowledge of the region at the time it was written, there is no way one could or would have guessed the meaning of the passage. 

There's a lot of that sort of "Scriptural illiteracy" in contemporary Christian culture.  Memorize minute passages out of context and applying them with whatever personal meaning one feels (note: not thinks).  Modern western eyes are reading ancient eastern texts.  Many evangelicals believe that the Holy Spirit will guide them in their belief (I believe that too), but I don't forget that the Lord helps those who help themselves.  Sure, the Holy Spirit can and does guide believers, but that does not relieve the believer from the responsibility of engaging his brain and doing his homework.  Further, while I believe that the Bible contains truth and only truth, I do not think that any and every understanding of what has been written is accurate.  The failure isn't with the book, but the readers. 

Sorry for the rant.  This is a topic that is near and dear to me, and for which my perspective has gotten me kicked off several Christian-themed forums. 

- Zurf

I think the people who participate on the forums are fine for your daughter to see and converse with.  There are some adult topics that come up, but at 13 I think you and she could talk through those issues.  However, there are a lot of lurkers about whom we know nothing, and so Deadstring's advice makes a lot of sense to me.  I have daughters too, and I understand your hesitation. 

- Zurf

Speak for yourself on the donuts. 

I don't think we've banned a member for content other than spamming for a long time.  The real pickers who come here to hang out are all pretty straightforward.  I don't kid myself of what language might be like around a campfire, but it seems like everyone has "read the room" and figured out what it takes to get along on-line. 

I'd also like to point out that if someone who is a regular contributor accidentally puts in an inappropriate link, we're most likely going to edit out the link and send a note to the member explaining our action.  We don't have to, but it's been our habit to extend that courtesy of explanation to those who participate and follow the rules the rest of the time. 

- Zurf